The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 4

#4. Killing (1)

Blood pooled and flowed.

Not only that, but blood burst out in all directions, covering everyone around.

“Aaaah… Aaaah!!!”

“I don’t want to anymore… I don’t want to…”

“Uhhh… Uhhhh…”

People collapsed, sobbing or despairing.

Only I remained standing.

K clapped, approaching me.

“Amazing. Instant judgment, crisis management. And even a satisfying revenge. Wow. Really amazing.”

“……”

I didn’t answer.

Then, K came closer and wiped the blood from my cheek with her finger.

And K whispered to me.

“I’ll give you the item as promised.”

In K’s hand was a sphere of shimmering light.

I just stared at it.

Humans can’t hold light like that.

That’s why I stayed still.

Then K pursed her lips and said.

“Oh, right. Lower races don’t have the concept of items. I forgot. Opening the inventory is simple. Just say, ‘Inventory!’”

She said, smiling brightly.

I examined her expression once and then quietly muttered.

“Inventory.”

Taat-!

Instantly, a holographic display appeared before my eyes.

It was a box window in a 9×9 grid format.

As I grasped the light, an item appeared in the first box.

I frowned as soon as I saw the item.

[Smith & Wesson Model 617, 10 rounds.]

It was a revolver pistol straight out of the movies.

When I touched the icon, instructions on how to fire it were helpfully displayed.

Even in this unfamiliar world, I knew that a ‘gun’ was an absolute weapon in a ruined world.

Because the gun was one of the greatest inventions in human history.

I looked at her.

She smiled and muttered.

“How is it? Glad you bet?”

“……”

“That, no one else has it. All the gunpowder weapons circulating in this world are prohibited within the League. That’s an item that we sell. So, in other words… it’s a really huge advantage. Only given to you.”

Gunpowder weapons refer to rifles used by general military units or police forces.

To put it simply, the gun I’m holding now might be the only one in the world.

I quickly closed the inventory.

No one could see it, but it was an instinctive action.

I asked K.

“Sell? So you’re saying you guys also sell items to us players?”

“Hmm? Ummm…? Did I say that?”

K suddenly panicked and stammered.

As I continued to stare at K, she sighed and muttered.

“Haa-. That’s why I hate smart kids. I’ll get fired if I say that now. Huh? So pretend you didn’t hear anything.”

“Whatever.”

It doesn’t matter.

Because even if I only have a gun, it doesn’t change the fact that I have a huge advantage in this ruined world.

“Bullets. Use them wisely, okay? They’re more expensive than you think.”

“……None of your business.”

“Puhuhu…! Cold~ Cold~.”

Thump!!!

At that moment, a loud noise echoed throughout the store.

People who were trembling as if they were out of their minds also looked up at the ceiling in surprise.

The noise came from the upper floor.

And the subtle vibration that I had been feeling since before.

From this vibration felt through my toes, I felt a sense of crisis that made my hair stand on end.

If this vibration means the ‘guys’ K mentioned earlier…

“Oh, crazy. They’re already here. This is a disaster. Everyone! My cute pets have finally arrived!”

K drew people’s attention again.

She jumped around, running between the people who were sitting down.

And she shook the fallen people one by one and shouted.

“Oh, come on. Survivors~! There’s no time to sit down and despair like that? It’s time to really get a sense of reality!”

It was that moment.

“Aaaaaaah-!!!”

A man’s scream was heard.

The man was bleeding, running from the escalator, fleeing from something.

“Aah! S, save me! Save me.”

But soon the man was struck by something falling from above and collapsed.

The vibration was felt even more strongly.

I slowly backed away.

Soon the disaster began.

Dozens of green monsters poured down from the upper escalator.

Thudududududu!

Everyone froze on the spot, unable to take a single step.

K shouted, setting off firecrackers she had taken out at some point.

Bang, bang!!!

“Ugh! I don’t know! Tutorial start, start, start! Do whatever you want, and I hope you survive!”

With those words, K disappeared into thin air.

And one by one, people began to back away.

I clenched my fist.

As hard as possible.

* * *

I’ve never fought before.

Even when I was young, if a strong guy came along, I would just slip away.

I always hated fighting.

Fighting is truly a barbaric act.

Someone asked me, “Then are UFC fighters barbaric too?”

I answered the child who asked me that.

UFC is not a fight, but a sport.

Fighting is an act of harming each other for some gain.

I once swung my fist.

Not at someone, but at the air.

Whoosh-!

The fist cut through the air and stretched forward.

It felt awkward to attack something.

My head was filled with thoughts of whether I really swung my fist.

Then I finally opened a book.

The more you pursue knowledge, the more you experience a higher dimension of the world.

I liked adventuring in such a world.

But the world I’m facing now is a different dimension.

Truly another world.

Thump, thump-!

A green monster that jumped over the display stand knocked a man down.

The man screamed and fell, and green monsters gathered around him.

Crunch, crunch, crunch!

I saw a person’s bones for the first time.

They’re really white, bones are.

The man’s bones were broken alive, chewed greedily in the green monster’s mouth.

Stumble.

I moved my back foot without realizing it.

There was no space to run away.

The outer wall of the building was already surrounded by an unidentified black smoke, and I couldn’t go outside.

“Inventory.”

Gun.

I opened the inventory.

I was about to pick up the pistol, but I stopped for a moment.

To put it simply, taking out the gun at this moment is the right decision.

But I didn’t think I could handle those dozens of monsters with only 10 bullets.

Even if I hit two monsters each with 10 bullets and deal with the monsters in front of me, I could be at a great disadvantage in the next stage.

There might be more monsters on the upper floor right now.

The gun was too much, at this tutorial stage.

‘Think… I’m thinking.’

There is an answer to everything.

There is no such thing as an unsolvable phenomenon.

Newton came up with the answer about the law of gravity after seeing an apple falling.

The situation I’m in now is the same.

There must be a way to live.

I rolled my eyes.

Very quickly, I stored all the phenomena occurring in this area in my brain as if taking pictures.

It was a dark store, but the smartphone lights that people had dropped here and there occasionally made the view visible.

A monster ran and bumped into the front display stand without realizing it. It couldn’t avoid it to the side even though it was a very thin display stand.

There is a packaged mop stick over there.

Two monsters fight over a woman’s leg meat, and one kills the other.

A monster runs towards a child and slips and falls.

Three monsters surround a man and a woman on the display stand. They can’t climb it, but they can knock it over easily enough.

I acquired three pieces of information.

First, the monster has very low intelligence. At best, dog level.

Second, the monster cannot maintain its sense of balance. Balance is only maintained when running, but when standing, it staggered because of its thin legs. That’s why when they rushed, they couldn’t easily change direction and only ran forward.

Third, thanks to the thin muscles, the monsters cannot climb display stands higher than their height.

‘Okay. I can do it.’

A plan was made.

I unwrapped the towel wrapped around my bag and wrapped it around both hands.

At that moment, my side felt a chill.

Instinctively, I twisted my body, and at the same time, a sharp blade pierced into the place where I was standing.

Shwaeek-!

The monster’s blade narrowly passed by my body.

The monster revealed its blood-stained teeth and laughed strangely.

I stood up slowly, holding the towel.

My heart was beating like crazy.

‘I have to do it…!’

I gripped the towel I was holding even harder.

I have to do it.

I had to do it here.

I had to kill that monster.

“Kyaaaaaaak!!!!”

The monster rushed in.

It only came straight, its balance already compromised.

I twisted my body to the left.

The monster, unable to stop, ran past me.

Soon the monster lost its balance and fell forward.

Thwack!

The monster tried to get up.

But I rushed in at once and climbed on top of it.

The monster’s height is less than 1 meter [approximately 3 feet].

It felt like crushing a child with my body.

But I have to kill this creature.

I’ve never easily killed a sparrow, let alone a monster.

But at this moment, I had to kill this monster.

I tied the monster’s neck with the towel I was holding in my hand.

I pulled it back so hard that the blood vessels in my fist burst.

Kuuuuuuuuuk……!

“Kueeeek… Keheok… Kok… Kaak…!”

The monster struggled, strangled by the towel, and soon died.

When the monster’s body was completely limp, I finally released my hand.

The monster slumped and fell from my grasp.

For the first time… I killed a living thing.

But at the same time as that thought, I got up and ran towards the mop stick I had seen earlier.

There’s no time to be sentimental.

I tore open the mop stick bag and took out the product.

And holding the mop stick, I slowly walked into the darkness.

Some people were resisting the monster’s attack.

Some seemed to have killed some, but some seemed to have been hurt.

I shouted at them.

“Monsters only move in a straight line!!! Evade diagonally-!!!!!”

It wasn’t a shout to save them.

I can only survive if they fight.

We can only deal with the monsters here if we work together.

Some of the people who heard me avoided the monsters coming in a straight line by moving to the side.

And they began to kill one or two monsters.

Holding the mop stick, I approached.

The monster only runs in a straight line.

And when it hits an obstacle, it gets up again.

Run straight again.

Simple pattern.

Weak monster body.

In comparison, most humans have bodies over 160cm tall [approximately 5 feet 3 inches].

It is a trial that humans can overcome easily enough.

Whoosh- Kwajik!!!

I swung the mop stick and broke the monster’s head.

“Uaaaaaa!!!”

“You X bastards!!!!”

People gradually began to deal with the monsters, centered around me.

Kwajik, kwajik!!!

People began to counterattack, and the monsters’ green blood began to splatter everywhere.

People gathered in groups of three or five and pushed back the monsters.

But the view was still dark.

I saw the smartphones that had fallen all over the store and shouted at the people.

“People who can’t fight, shine the lights! Hurry!!!”

“Yes… Yes!!!”

“Ah… I understand!”

An old man or a child who couldn’t fight picked up a smartphone.

Holding three in one hand, they shined the light on the monster.

Paah-!!!

Light shone in the store.

“Kyaaaaaaak-!”

“Kyaak! Kyaaaak!”

The monsters who faced the light in a straight line avoided their gaze as if they were in pain.

It was new information.

‘They… hate light.’

I didn’t miss the opportunity.

I didn’t want to miss this opportunity.

I broke the heads of the monsters who couldn’t come to their senses, one by one.

Many people began to follow me.

And soon, the store was able to regain its silence.

(To be continued in the next episode)